Amber Alert -- Saskatchewan

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Sask. RCMP issue Amber Alert for boy, 10; search on for convicted pedophile

REGINA (CP) - Police have put out an Amber Alert for a missing Saskatchewan boy believed to have been taken by a pedophile with a string of convictions in Ontario.

RCMP say 10-year-old Zachary Miller went missing from his Whitewood-area home Sunday afternoon.

They're also looking for 35-year-old Peter Robert Joseph Whitmore, a repeat sex offender who now lives in Morinville, Alta.

"The suspect has been seen in the Whitewood area over the last few days. The suspect has also been in contact with the victim's family in the last few days as well," said Sgt. Tammy Patterson.

RCMP said Zachary could be in danger, and called the circumstance of his disappearance "suspicious."

"The level of concern is extremely grave at this time. We believe that the victim may come to harm and that is the purpose for putting out the Amber Alert," said Patterson.

Zachary is described as four and a half feet tall, 70 pounds, with red hair and brown eyes.

He was last seen wearing black track pants with a red and white stripe and running shoes.

Whitmore is described as six feet tall, white, with a heavy build, brown hair and blue eyes.

Police say Whitmore may be accompanied by an aboriginal youth, about 14 years old.

He may be driving a 1988 blue Dodge Caravan with wood panelling and Alberta plate CUS 532.

Whitmore is well-known in Ontario for a string of high-profile sex assault convictions against children.

He was first convicted in 1993 of abduction and five sexual offences involving four young boys and spent 16 months in custody.

Nine days after his release, he took an eight-year-old girl from Guelph, Ont., to Toronto. He was sentenced to 56 months in prison for that.

Less than a month after his November 2000 release, Whitmore was found in a downtown Toronto motel with a 13-year-old boy. He was sentenced to one year in jail.

Whitmore also has a record in British Columbia, where he has been fighting to be moved in order to avoid the media spotlight in Ontario.

Whitmore fled there in 2002 after being found in the company of a five-year-old boy.

Whitmore pleaded guilty to the parole violations because a "rape kit" had been found on him while in British Columbia.

A search of Whitmore's backpack turned up latex gloves, pictures of young children, tubes of jelly lubricant, duct tape, a sleeping bag and plastic zipper ties that can be used as handcuffs.

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1. How could this guy be released???. n/t